Art Quotes

Plato, dialogues, phaedo - the partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute,...
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
Biblical Prove
Albert coombs barnes - it does not require great learning to be a...
Jean ke - being divorced is like being hit by a mack truck...
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.
George Gordon Byron
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
W. S. Gilbert
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
Dostoyevsky
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
William Hart Coleridge
We only part to meet again.
John Gay
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying.
Anon.
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
Cornelius Tacitus
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
Dave Barry
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
Archibald Cox
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
Tench Coxe
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.
Steven Wright
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Gustav Jung
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo DaVinci, (maybe)
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.
Unknown
The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.
Robert Frost
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Arab Prove
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
African Prove
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph, on his surrender to Gen. Howard, October 5, 1877
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
James Baldwin
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - It shall never be again.
Rudyard Kipling
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.
Scott Adams
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2